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I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

From being a teacher and educator, I see the state of the music through the eyes of an 18-year-old coming on to the scene, and we want to make sure it stays intact. With my generation, it's our duty to do that.

I don't want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that's what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me as long as it doesn't bother them that they're not hearing 90 percent of the music that way.

I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.

A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.

If parents don't like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn't let their kids watch me.